SYNOPSIS OF PROCEEDINGS. 285 



Received of Prof. H. F. Wickham of the Iowa State University 

 nearly two hundred specimens of coleoptera from the Lake Superior 

 regions. They are of special interest to the Academy as part of the 

 material treated of in the Proceedings published two years ago (Vol. 

 VI., pages 125-169). 



A committee consisting of Rev. J. B. Donaldson, Mrs. M. L. D. 

 Putnam and Dr. C. H. Preston was appointed to draft resolutions of 

 regret on the death of Maj. G. P. McClelland and to report at the next 

 meeting. 



The Recording Secretary was instructed to write to Mr. VVillliam 

 H. Ballou of New York City that the probabilities were the Academy 

 would be represented by active members at the Eighth International 

 Geological Congress, to be held in Paris in 1900, and his appointment 

 as a representative could not at present be considered. 



REPORT or THE CURATOR FOR THE YEAR 1S97. 



Additions were made to the museum as follows : 



From Clarence B. Moore, Philadelphia, a burial urn from Mound A., 

 Middle Settlement, Ossabar Island, Bryan County, Georgia. It had been 

 originally co\ ered with an inverted bowl of earthenware, over the fragments 

 of a skeleton of a small child, much decayed. 



Three specimens of gold in quartz from Cripple Creek, donor unknown. 



From Capt. Hall, purchased by the Mound Fund, nine rather rough 

 stone axes, and thirty seven flint implements from Pleasant Valley. 



From Mr. J. \' . Proudfit of Washington, D. C, a collection of stone im- 

 plements from Mills County, Iowa. They are contained in twelve small 

 boxes and six packages, numbered, labelled, and put up with the utmost 

 care. A catalogue accompanies the gift, with notes. Also two papers writ- 

 ten by the giver, entitled "Antiquities of the Missouri Bluffs," and " The 

 Cave Dwellers." 



From Capt. Hall, purchased with funds from the Mound Fund, one large 

 celtand twenty-two flint implements. 



From Clarence B. Moore, two boxes. The first contained another burial 

 urn, somewhat crushed in transit, but completely restored by Mr. Charles 

 E. Harrison. The second contained one large drinking \essel, twelve 

 smaller forms, one box of ordinary shell beads, another of extraordinary 

 large forms, thirteen cores of conch shells, one package fragments of pot- 

 tery, one box of burned human bones, one box of river shells each pierced 

 at the apex, five specimens of the Fulgar canaca perforated and showing 

 wear at the beaks, one fine stone celt and two fragments of rock, all 

 labelled, giving localities where found, and their marks and peculiarities. 



From Mrs. Margaret Holmes, a large specimen of the coral known as 

 the Tubipora iinisica ; a\so3.?,i>QC\menoit\\& JVautt/its pon/piliusoi Linnaeus. 



A small collection of flint implements — about thirty — from Capt. Hall. 



J. C. Tilton donated to the Academy, for its Museum, a case and stand. 



From Oliver Allen of Mumford, N. Y., specimens of Calcareous tufa, of 

 -which their church was built. 



[Proc. D.A.N S.,VoL VII.] 35 f June 24, 1899.I 



